New Delhi

The parents of the Kolkata trainee doctor who was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata called upon their fellow citizens to stand with them until all accused are caught. In New Delhi, doctors said they will provide their services in a makeshift clinic on the road outside Nirman Bhawan, a secretariat building that houses the Union Health Ministry in the heart of the Indian national capital. 

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The medical professionals from some of India's top medical institutes, namely All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Maulana Azad Medical College, are calling upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to bring in an "urgent central ordinance for the safety and security of healthcare workers and institutes".

Meanwhile, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Sunday night (August 18) stated that he "called an emergency meeting of a cross-section of Bengal society" to take them into confidence of the action taken in the case and to gather their opinions on the issue.

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His statement comes after former Indian cricketer and Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Harbhajan Singh shared a letter urging West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Bose to take immediate and decisive action.

'Blood was coming out of her eyes': Victim's mother speaks up

The mother of the deceased doctor suggested that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is failing to tackle the case properly and alleged on Sunday (August 18) that West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress was trying to stop the protests.

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"She (Mamata Banerjee) said the culprits would be arrested as soon as possible, but only one person has been held. I am sure more people in the hospital are involved. I think the chief minister is trying to stop the protests. That’s why police enforced prohibitory orders today to stop the assembly of protestors," the victim’s mother told the media at the family’s home in North 24 Parganas district.

She told news agency ANI that the hospital officials first told her that her daughter had committed suicide.

"First we got a call from the hospital that your daughter is sick, then the call was disconnected. After that when I called and asked what happened, they told me to come to the hospital. When we called again, the (caller) identified himself as 'assistant super' and said your daughter has committed suicide. She went to duty on Thursday, we got this call on Friday at 10:53 am. When we reached there, we were not allowed to see her, we were allowed to see her at 3 o'clock. Her pants were open, there was only one piece of cloth on her body. Her hand was broken, and blood was coming out of her eyes, and mouth. Just by looking at her, it seemed that someone had murdered her," ANI quoted her as saying.

"I told them it is not suicide, it's a murder. We worked so hard to make our daughter a doctor but she was murdered," she claimed.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the rape and murder of a doctor in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

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A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the case on August 20.

Calcutta High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the probe, after expressing a lack of satisfaction with the Kolkata Police. The Kolkata Police then did an expansive media outreach to suggest the purported transparency from their side in the case. 

(With inputs from agencies)